Despite the decade existence of Women Development Code in the city, women’s rights advocates said it is still not enough to empower and liberate women.
Following the beheading of German national Juergen Kantner on Sunday by the Abu Sayyaf Group in Sulu, the Department of National Defense has vowed once again to go after the ASG with the “full force of the law.”
A wife who is pregnant with their first born, and parents who are searching for their son for already a month appealed to President Rodrigo Duterte to help them be reunited with their loved ones.
The New People’s Army in Southern Mindanao emphasized that although it welcomed the talks with Mayor Sara Duterte, it stands by the national leadership of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines as the negotiating entity in the peace process.
Mayor Sara Duterte has given birth to a healthy baby boy nicknamed “Stonefish” at 12:56 noon Thursday.
Gabriela Women’s partylist Rep. Emmi De Jesus and Arlene Brosas filed House Resolution 829 on Wednesday, urging President Rodrigo Duterte to seek executive clemency from the United Arab Emirates government for an overseas Filipino worker from General Santos City who is facing an execution.
Moro lawmakers on Wednesday condemned as “barbaric” and “un-Islamic” the Abu Sayyaf Group’s beheading of 70-year old German national Jurgen Kantner.
A government anti-terrorist unit here said it welcomed the upcoming talks of Mayor Sara Duterte and the New People’s Army, armed-wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines.
In his message, AdDU school president Fr. Joel Tabora said it is only now that the Department of Environment and Natural Resources has a leader who is “passionate about the environment.”
The EcoWaste Coalition urged Monday the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to permanently ban the use of arsenic, a known carcinogen, for the treatment and preservation of wood.
